Hannah Boast

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I am Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh. I was previously Assistant Professor/Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Warwick, and Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Postcolonial Literature at University of Birmingham. I have also taught at University of York. I held a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science short-term fellowship at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, in 2022. 

My academic background is in Geography and English. The main focus of my research is water in modern and contemporary world literature. I have a particular interest in environmental politics and culture in Palestine/Israel. I also publish in critical animal studies. As welll as publishing on literature, I sometimes write on popular culture and documentary.

My first book, Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) Book Prize 2021 for Best Academic Monograph in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities.

I convene Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network and am Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.